Initiatives in the Area of the Financing of the EU Budget in the Context of Environmental Protection

Abstract

In the article the Author discusses the structure of the EU budget initially, focuses on its revenue component and expenditure component and examines its status de lege lata. Subsequently, after this description, he describes the principles applied to the intended reform of the EU budget. Following the reform principles, the Author points out the recent initiatives of the environmental new own resource of the EU budget, whose primary objective is to comply with one of the most important EU policies, which is the environmental protection in accordance with the High-Level Group on Own Resources study from December 2016. In the end, the Author submits an evaluation of environmental own resources in the light of the presented reform principles of the financing of the EU budget.